Generative AI Empowered Network Digital Twins: Architecture, Technologies, and Applications

The rapid advancement of mobile networks highlights the limitations of traditional network planning and optimization methods, particularly in modeling, evaluation, and application. Network Digital Twins, which simulate networks in the digital domain for evaluation, offer a solution to these challenges. This concept is further enhanced by generative AI technology, which promises more efficient and accurate AI-driven data generation for network simulation and optimization. This survey provides insights into generative AI-empowered network digital twins. We begin by outlining the architecture of a network digital twin, which encompasses both digital and physical domains. This architecture involves four key steps:…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 2023YFB2904804, 62471277
• TU
  Tsinghua University
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2023YFB2904804